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The Big Boss of the universe in monotheistic and monolatric religions. The Alpha And The Omega, the Big Cheese, the Big Guy in the Sky, the Man Upstairs, the Almighty, the Creator, Capital G, Ceiling Cat, Old Beardy.

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Metaphysical human concept or not, He's got a pretty large chunk of humanity as believers and followers, thanks in part to best-selling books such as The Bible and The Qur'an, which feature God as a prevalent character, if not the main character, books stated to have been inspired by Him.

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He's usually portrayed as the only deity in the works He appears in, with two major trends going against this. Some depictions create an opposing force to God equal in stature to Him, The Anti-God. Another variation is for there to be multiple lesser god-like being below Him. Both of these are actually in contrast to at least Abrahamic religious canon, but that hasn't stopped fiction.

Medieval and Renaissance Art are almost exclusively concerned with depicting God or those faithful to him. Most commonly, He's conflated with the infant Jesus being cradled by his mother, the suffering Jesus on the cross, or the corpse of Jesus being cradled by his mother. Regardless of whether these incarnations deal with God incarnate, they almost always feature him with some variant of the Holy Halo, often even a Holy Backlight, to communicate his wisdom and divinity.

And then God said, "Let there be examples." And so it was done; God had created many examples of Him appearing in other works:

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The Almighty One in Ah! My Goddess. Theorized Father of Belldandy and Skuld, as well as Urd, who was produced by a tryst with Satan the Ruler of Demonkind. It has now been confirmed that he IS their father and that he is actually Tyr from the Norse legends.

Angel Sanctuary features God Is Evil in a really, really nasty way. God not only forced an Original Sin down on his angels ( when growing in their tubes they live from their own Mother, Adam Kadamon; during her captivity in Eden Alexiel also is made to Eat fruits from the Tree of Enlightenment. Which grows from Adam Kadamon's eye. Yuck. That the fruits look like baby heads doesn't make it any better. ) - nope, he also considers all of his angels failed experiments and wants to end the world. Oh, and he's a computer program. Neat one, Kaori Yuki - neat one.

In Code Geass, God is the collective will of every person that has ever lived (and maybe ever will live, they're not too clear on it). Charles and his brother want to kill it. Instead, Lelouch geasses it, ruining their plans.

The Truth of Fullmetal Alchemist starts his speech to anyone who dares cross into his domain (i.e. through Human Transmutation), by stating that "I am the World. I am the Universe. I am God. I am Truth. I am One. I am All. And I am also you!"

Deus ex Machina from Future Diary. The story happens because Deus is dying and needs to choose a successor to become the new god. Interestingly, there appear to be a couple of limits on his powers: it has been conclusively stated that he cannot resurrect the dead, as he is apparently unable to bring back the souls of the deceased. That, and he's dying himself.

Itsuki Koizumi theorizes that Haruhi is God. She possesses godlike abilities, true, but he's not completely sure that she's actually the creator of the universe, just noting it as a possibility. However, he's a bit biased, being an esper who received his powers from Haruhi; the time travelers and aliens are quite firm that despite Haruhi's powers, she is not God.

There's also a strong fan theory that Haruhi is actually not the one with powers, but instead they belong to her seemingly-normal Deadpan Snarker boyfriend, who lets everyone believe she has them because he doesn't want them.

Kyoko Tachibana is an esper who believes someone entirely different (Sasaki, an old friend of Kyon's) is God. And unlike Koizumi, who is just idly speculating, she believes this very strongly, and gets upset whenever anyone brings up the possibility that she's not actually divine—especially the god in question.

In Pani Poni Dash!, God is a cat that changes colors every episode and lives in a vending machine.

Lain Iwakura from Serial Experiments Lain may or may not be God. We're not quite sure. At any rate, even if she's not God, her power level makes the whole point kinda moot.

Shaman King's Great Spirit is "God" and is every spirit manifested into a giant pillar of light.

The Lucifer comics depict God as sympathetic towards humans, but ultimately rather alien and willing to do terrible things in pursuit of greater goals. Indeed, at one point He is willing to destroy the entire universe, as He wasn't sure if it was really a successful experiment or not. Eventually, He was convinced to do nothing and let the inhabitants of his universe solve the entropy of the universe by themselves, an idea He didn't seem to have even considered and thus found rather amusing.

God is shown, face and all, in the Preacher comics. Definitely not one of the kinder depictions of his power or personality.

Marvel Comics have an interesting relationship with God. The highest being in the setting and creator of the universe is The One Above All, best known as the being who gives the Living Tribunal his marching orders. Spider-Man met him once where he appeared as a homeless man, and the Fantastic Four met him once where he appeared as (or is) Jack Kirby. However, there is also Yahweh, the God of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, who may or may not be distinct from the One Above All and who is a peer of Odin and Zeus. They're both really nice guys, by the way.

The DCU has The Presence,also known as The Voice, The Hand, and The Source who plays essentially the same role. His most directly visible role is being the source of power behind the Spectre's abilities, since the Spectre is, technically speaking, a Fallen Angel who repented, and as such gets micromanaged a fair bit more than usual just in case. As The Source, meanwhile, it shows up as a giant burning hand in the New Gods stories, and as witnessed by Krona created the Universe in that form (the "Big Hand" theory).

The DC/Marvel crossover that led to Amalgam Comics portrayed the respective masters of The Living Tribunal and the Spectre as universe-sized robotic-looking humanoids. Who happen to be brothers...

Conan the Barbarian has Mitra, who's essentially the Judeo-Christian God under a different name. His followers are strict monotheists (the only ones in Hyboria!), believe in Heaven and Hell and are sworn enemies of Set, the setting's serpentine Satan analogue.

In the Pony POV Series, while the Elders are joint Top Gods in the setting, the Father of All Alicorns (or just known as The Father) has many similarities to the traditional Christian God, including being the Dimension Lord of Heaven.

In the Harry Potter fanfiction King Of Kings Ruling Over Rulers, the major religion in the Wizarding World worships the Christian-Abrahamic God, known to the wizards as Aernus. To some, however, he is known as Ayavan.

The Atlanteans take this even further, for before the destruction of their civilization, they saw Aernus not as God himself, but as the accidental fusion of the two souls (Al-Aion and Fa-Aion) of God, known to them as the Aion.

In Dominus Mundi The King Of Kings, a reboot of the above fanfic, the main religion of the wizarding world is a fusion of pre-schismatic Christianity and the general beliefs of the ancient Perennial cults. As such, while there are many deities around, they have the Abrahamic God as their primary deity, yet rarely referring to Him as Aion. The Aeneans also believe that His attributes are embodied in the group known as the Sacred Twelve.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail goes all-out subversion of the usual delicacy about the Almighty with a Terry Gilliam-animated God who peers out of the clouds and issues orders to Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, while complaining about people being deferential to Him and how depressing the Psalms are. And all of this back in 1975.

In Dogma, God appears in two incarnations. First, He's a rather shabby and gentle old man who unfortunately gets the crap kicked out of Him by demonic underage murderers on rollerblades; second, she is Alanis Morissette in a silver tutu, and is fond of doing handstands. It's also mentioned that God is a Skee-Ball addict. Although it's implied that God's appearance as Alanis is because that was the form the protagonist needed to see most. It is also implied that God was once as vengeful and wrathful as He/She was portrayed as in the Old Testament (Sodom and Gomorrah, the ten plagues, etc), but became less so as time passed. He/She no longer keeps an angel employed to fulfill His/Her wrath and gives His/Her Skee-Ball tickets to neighborhood children.

Monotheism seems fairly rare in the galaxy, but there is one notable exception, the Sunesi species, a devoutly religious race that believes in the Maker, an all-powerful deity who made the universe and all its inhabitants. The Force might be God or like God. The one Sunesi Jedi in the Expanded Universe believes that his ability to use the Force is "a gift from the Maker."

In one of the earliest Behind-the-Scenes for Star Wars, George Lucas stated that the Force was basically "boiling down all religions, in that there is some being, condition, or Force involved in all of them."

Humorously, the Narrator in George of the Jungle apparently is God (in the straight-to-video sequel, he drags away a villain who told him to shut up into Heaven — complete with heavenly music, cartoon cherubs, and screams of terror), and generally screws around with the villains who often get tired of his narrating.

God is referenced as the Hand that stopped the bullets from killing Jules and Vincent in Pulp Fiction. Vincent is less than convinced, Jules decides to change his life over it. The audience is left to decide for themselves, but Vincent's fate tends to indicate Jules was right.

God is stated to exist in Constantine and has a wager with Old Lou for all of Earth as the prize. He never appears but twice intervened. First was stripping His Favor from the half-angel Gabriel before Gabriel could strike Satan, as Gabriel is the Big Bad of the movie and wants to unleash Hell on Earth to make humans worthy of God's Love. Later because the hero Constantine summoned Lou, thereby committing suicide and asked for the soul of another be freed from Hell as payment and no personal gain, it was enough to absolve him of all sins and not on a trip to Hell, which Lou was hoping for. God possibly even moved Constantine's hand to flip Lou off before Lou.

God appears at the end of Rapture Palooza to furiously rant against the protagonists for having killed Jesus with a laser gun, and gets into a fistfight with Satan before both fall into a jacuzzi and get electrocuted by a boombox, killing both of them for good.

π: The Jewish group believes that the universal number is the true name of God and that they will come closer to the Messianic Age by invoking it. Max is ambivalent about this notion but feels that only he is worthy because it was given to him.

Literature

The ancient entity, Maganu, is this in Adam R. Brown's fantasy series, Astral Dawn. Maganu has taken on many forms, including that of three giant blue stars. Maganu is actually the creator of just one of many universes within a collection of universes called the Tapestry. How he went about this is actually pretty wild. Though he is not the one total God, as humans might think of it, as far as the "anomalous dimension" goes, he's pretty much it.

References to "the Creator" as the antithesis of the Dark One are everywhere in the Wheel of Time series through phrases like "the light of the Creator", but, Church Militant aside, there doesn't seem to be much religion involved, and the Creator itself never directly appears in the series. The lack of religion has been explained by the fact that in-universe Creator and Dark One are very much real, and everyone knows that (for example, saying the Dark One's true name aloud will have dire(ct) consequences). The Creator seems to be a very hands-off kind of deity. In one of the books, it's implied that he created all worlds, but doesn't particularly care if one of them dies in the way that a gardener plants all the flowers in a garden, but doesn't care if one of them wilts. The characters seem to acknowledge and accept this. That doesn't explain why prayers and catechisms are addressed to him, though. It's somewhat implied that he indirectly works to save the world by sending the Dragon and his companions.

Eru Ilúvatar in The Silmarillion, also known as "The One". He appears to have created the Ainur; however, most of the time he doesn't seem to do much and lets the Valar and Maia manage Arda. When Aule created the Dwarves against Eru's will but offered them up to him and proved ready to destroy them, Eru gave them souls. One of the rare cases where Eru did interact was when the Numenoreans, inspired by Sauron, attacked Valinor, causing him to destroy Numenor and make the world round, meaning human vessels couldn't reach Valinor.

The Creator in the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is rather unusual in that while He is undoubtedly the creator of the Land (the setting for most of the novels), it is not so clear whether He is also the guy who made the "real world" where Thomas comes from. He seems benevolent, and unusually humble as gods go, frequently dressing like a hobo (with really bad breath). He's certainly not omnipotent: he can't defeat his enemy, Lord Foul (the Devil), without also destroying the world he created.

Agents of God are present in The Dresden Files, and the Man Himself is referred to as the "White God" by various supernatural entities. Other gods exist as well, though it's implied that most of them aren't very active anymore. Odin seems to be doing well for himself, though.

Monotheistic religious texts, listed below. Some readings treat Him as the protagonist. Some treat Him as the author; Author Avatar may apply.

His Dark Materials is about killing God. Yeah. Though in the third book it's revealed that God isn't actually "evil", just senile, and that he isn't the creator, just the first angel to be born. And when Lyra and Will free him from his protective cage, he's so fragile and old that he's killed by a brush of the wind.However, it's also implied that the idea of "God" as we know it, as an omnipotent, omniscient creator of everything, doesn't have a physical or tangible form in the first place, instead existing in Dust, the fabric of The Multiverse and the substance of conscious human thought and knowledge. In other words, God is everything.Wow.

In Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, the dialogue "Little Harmonic Labyrinth" presents GOD as the union of an infinite hierarchy of djinns. "GOD" is a Recursive Acronym for "GOD Over Djinn." In the following chapter, where djinns become a metaphor for natural numbers, the significance of naming the set of all djinns "GOD" is explained by quoting the mathematician Leopold Kronecker: "God made the natural numbers; all the rest is the work of man."

Aslan is of course Narnia's version of Christ. God the Father is 'The Emperor Beyond the Sea'.

The Divine Comedy: In the thirty-third canto of the third part of the poem, the last 100 lines is dedicated to describing Him, a task Dante admits is like accurately recalling something you saw 25 centuries ago or speaking wisely with an infant's knowledge. Dante illustrates God as a figure that is made up of three circles which somehow look as if they are a single circle. One of the circles looks like it's begotten from the first circle and the third looks like fire being produced by both. That begotten circle strangely has the same color as the rest of the circles while also bearing the hue of humanity, a fact which encapsulates Dante. Although he tries to take the whole of that great light into his mind, Dante admits he is too weak for that, but the light granted him what his mind had asked for.

"Here force failed my high fantasy; but my desire and will were moved alreadylike a wheel revolving uniformlyby the Love that moves the sun and the other stars."

Paradise Lost initially casts God as the antagonist through Satan's extensive verse. Once the narrative shifts past him, the poem leans towards God's side of things.

C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce is about how various souls in Hell justify rejecting God's invitation to Heaven.

Has been mentioned once in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in the semi-canonical Eric. As a side effect of granting the title character's wish to live forever, the wizard Rincewind meets the creator of his universe, described as a mousy man with a scraggly beard. Heavily implied to be an Author Avatar, the man admits he's actually one of several subcontractors who build universes from scratch while their own creator busies Himself with His own creation.

Till We Have Faces: The Divine Nature is thought by Greek intellectuals (like Fox) to be a single, all-powerful, and unemotional power who created all things and assigns their destinies. While Fox's logical proofs and scholarly arguments suit the needs of priests and politicians, the old Priest of Ungit maintains that gods must be found in mystery and sacrifice rather than writing and navel-gazing. Every worshipper in the novel affirms the Priest's criticism of Fox.

Though Heaven, Hell, and a living personification of all evil exist in the Buffyverse, God is almost conspicuous in His absence. Buffy herself comments that there's "nothing solid" on the matter. However, there are The Powers That Be. They may be gods, but they're not God. It's implied that a divine miracle occurred in Season 3 when it snowed to prevent Angel from committing "Suicide by Sunrise." However, it's left ambiguous enough that it could also have been Santa Claus looking out for vampires with souls. The whole "White Christmas" thing being his entire shtick and all.

Or Jasmine. Could be Jasmine, saving her future grandfather. Which would explain a lot of stuff behind Angel's motivation in Season 5.

Cited as the prime mover behind Sam's inability to get home in Quantum Leap. (Or, more accurately, as the force which caused the Quantum Leap Project to go awry in the particular way that it did; the series finale heavily implies that Sam is subconsciously keeping himself from getting home.)

In season 1 finale of The Sarah Silverman Program, the titular character meets, is saved by, sleeps with, and then dumps the Morgan Freemanesque entity which she refers to as "Black God." When God makes his first appearance, she asks him, consistent with her character's casual racism, "Are you God's black friend?" A later episode has them reconciling and briefly dating, and God is portrayed as clingy, emotionally insecure, and prone to coming on too strong.

Season 4 brings us Judeo-Christian mythology (with some amount of Islamic mythology added in regards to Lucifer's history), with the appearance of Castiel (an angel), who insists that God does exist. At the beginning of season 5, Sam and Dean are mysteriously transported onto an airplane, and Castiel is brought back from the dead, both of which he attributes to an act of God.

Castiel: There is someone besides Michael strong enough to take on Lucifer. Strong enough to stop the apocalypse. Sam: Who's that? Castiel:The one who resurrected me and put you on that airplane. The one who began everything. God. (pause) I'm gonna find God. Dean: Try New Mexico. I hear he's on a tortilla.

As the fifth season went on, various characters, including Raphael and Michael, told them that God was dead and/or gone.

In 5x18, "Dark Side of the Moon," Sam and Dean are told by the angel Joshua, who is supposedly the only one to speak directly to God at the moment, that God is alive and well and doesn't particularly care about stopping the apocalypse.

A mysterious disappearance in 5x22, "Swan Song," led many viewers to speculate that Chuck is God. According to Word of God, he is.

In the second-to-last episode of Rev, a bizarre cliche-spouting tramp played by an uncredited Liam Neeson shows up exactly when Adam, the titular vicar, is going through a particularly tough time in his life. It's heavily implied that he's God when, completely out of the blue, his personality shifts and he suddenly knows Adam's name despite having no possible way of having learned it.

God appeared in late-season X-Files...as a ratings stunt! Here he's played by Burt Reynolds, adding a salty, world-weariness to the role. In "Improbable", God is sitting at a bar playing cards with himself whilst watching over one of his troubled souls, willing him to make better choices in life without actually giving him any options because he has to make that choice himself. The distress on God's face when the man heads into the toilets to kill again despite every opportunity he has had to walk away reveals a momentary disappointment in the species he has created. The fact that a man heads to the machine that Vicky was playing on and scores a jackpot just as she is murdered goes to prove what a bitch fate can be.

Dragonlance has the Highgod, who created the lesser deities but has only intervened in Krynn's history to prevent its destruction. Chaos is the entity that opposes the High God, and it is from Chaos that the universe was created.

In Forgotten Realms, the Overgod Ao (who created the universe Faerun inhabits) is visited by his "boss" in the Avatar Trilogy. He is described as a "being of pure light" and is strongly implied to be the Judeo-Christian God.

In Shin Megami Tensei I he makes no direct appearance, but everyone on his side is working to build a kingdom on Earth where all men and demons shall fall prostrate before him for eternity, even completing a massive Cathedral that will serve as his Terrestrial Throne, and from all appearances, even though he doesn't show up, God approves of the above. We also learn that he long ago sealed away all the other demons and deprived them of the right to meddle in Man's affairs, but now they are back and aren't leaving without a fight.

In Shin Megami Tensei II, He is specifically named as YHVH and is a vain dictator who has created the universe in such a way that it will be subjugated under him forever. He essentially states that He exists because people believe in Him, making humanity the real source of all evil.

In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey it is implied that the evil God from the other games has been broken into pieces in the games backstory and that his pieces have got a life of its own. The game also reveals, albeit subtly that God forgot his love for humans.

In the first Devil Survivor, he's not seen, but implied to be, as opposed to his other appearances, very reasonable, and though his angels wanted to subjugate the Earth as soon as demons came back, he was the one who decided humanity should have one last chance to save themselves and decide their fate. However, the Updated Re-release soon revealed the big guy pushed the Abel And Cain scenario in order to create the first martyr and the first murderer, the latter of which has been punished nonstop since biblical times. All of this, of course, makes it clear he has severe issues with free will.

God is one of the many, many, many things that will show up in Scribblenauts if you type him into the game. He's strong enough to beat up the Kraken and Cthulhu (at least with the aid of a shotgun and skateboard), but not strong enough to kill Death.

Final Fantasy XIII. The whole trigger of the plot is that the fal'Cie want to summon God by creating a mass sacrifice/slaughter of humans, hoping that the violence is enough to attract His attention. Even the fal'Cie Orphan, who's the one supporting all of Cocoon in the first place, has a death wish for that reason. The fal'Cie can't do it on their own though.

Xenosaga has U-DO, God in the very Gnostic sense, a sort of manifestation of the collective unconscious in a single rather malevolentalien consciousness.

Similarly, Xenogears has U-DO's more-or-less equivalent, the Wave-Existence, who seems a like a decent enough omnipotent being, it just happens to be trapped in a malevolent planet destroying machine.

Dragon Age calls him The Maker. But there's no doubt that it's Him, with his church being modeled heavily after the Catholic and the Eastern Church, and the story of his Prophetess being an amalgam of Jesus, Mary, Mohammed, and Joan of Arc.

Also a case of Have You Seen My Maker? as He got fed up with humanity's sins and left them to rot after they executed His Prophetess. And defiled His city in the Fade. Or so His Chantry says.

Bayonetta has Jubileus, who is referred to as "The Creator" by all just about all other bosses in the game and her Boss Subtitle is Dea, which is Latin for goddess. It is worth noting that despite her status as God, she is not the hardest boss in the game... that honor goes to Rodin. She's also not the only God in the game; it's revealed she's only the Creator-God of Paradiso, at the end of the game Bayonetta summons the Dea of Inferno, Queen Sheba, who kicks Jubileus's soul right out of her body and Hurl It into the Sun.

In Bayonetta 2 it's revealed each realm within the Trinity of Realities as its own Creator-God; Paradiso has Jubileus, Inferno has Queen Sheba, and the human world has Aesir, who actually split his form into a good half (Loki) and an evil half (Loptr) after he sacrificed his power to give humankind free will. There's also Omni, who looks like a Fusion Dance of Jubileus and Queen Sheba, but is actually a completely unexplained third entity.

Random soldiers in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will occasionally claim they had a vision of God in the back of a truck. If you choose to investigate, you can find God and recruit him to MSF. He has the highest Intel stat in the game, but apparently E-rank cooking skill. He's actually Hideo Kojima himself, foreshadowed somewhat by a minor character being named Cosima Caminandes (written in kana as 'kojima kaminandesu', or "Kojima is god").

God (or some form thereof) also appears infrequently the Tales series.

In Abyss, we have Lorelei, the aggregate sentience of the Seventh Fonon which has a Christianity-like religion centred around it (complete with a Jesus parallel, although it's a little different in that she's female). The game is a little unsure on whether or not it's actually the God equivalent of the Abyss world or a Crystal Dragon Jesus.

Arc Rise Fantasia features three gods although two of them are effectively magic rocks... it's complicated, but only one of them is a true "God" parallel. She is also a massivewoobie, to the extent that if you aren't close to tears in the ending there is something seriously wrong with you. L'Arc, You Bastard!.Very well.

In The Simpsons Game, God is the final boss. As if that wasn't crazy enough, you get to fight him in a DDR parody, complete with a remix of the Scorpions' "Rock You Like A Hurricane" as the final boss theme !

In The Binding of Isaac, God calls to Isaac's mother to make a sacrifice using her son, thus starting the game's events. God later saves Isaac's life at the last second, either out of a HeelFace Turn, to parallel the original story in that is was all a test, though unlike Abraham, it drove Mom insane...or maybe Mom was just insane all along and imagined she heard God's voice, and God went to stop her.

The Golden Spider from Asura's Wrath, is a Big Bad example that spins the threads of all of existence, allowed the Deities of the game to use Mantra and made the gohma attack to test the Deities' resolve.

His real name is Chakravartin, which means Ideal Universal Ruler in Hindu Mythology. Unfortunately, He's evil, and doesn't really fit the Benevolent part that being an Ideal Universal Ruler comes with being.

God and Jesus make frequent appearances in Overcompensating. God is depicted in the typical old man with long hair and a long beard wearing a robe. However ,the robe is clearly a bathrobe and he dwells in a trailer park for some reason.

Like almost everybody else in the strip, God is portrayed as a Jerk Ass who especially hates Davan and Mike and ignores prayers to Him in lieu of watching shit happen to them.

He also made up the whole "Homosexuality angers God" business so that He could watch lesbian couples having sex with each other to spite Him. It's not made clear if the spite is needed in order to invoke His name so that He is allowed to watch, if invoking His name merely alerts him to the location the act is taking place, or if the spite is just part of His kink.

Although he doesn't appear directly, God is an indirect presence behind the scenes in Misfile, depicted as an all-knowing entity that lets his angelic bureaucracy handle the actual work or does he?

Lord Cyrios, the creator of the Daily Grind universe, has never appeared directly in the comic, but the Fae claim to be will-less bodies inhabited by his spirit, and several dead characters—like Tharka's sister Benjamina and Jolene's Mentor Stenni Eelstad—have shown up saying they work for him now.

"There is more than one being in the universe who desires souls. I am not Satan. I AM THAT I AM!"

In Jack, God is a more-or-less constant presence behind the scenes, since the comic is essentially about the morality of the afterlife, and how to deal with it. When she finally showed up in the flesh, so to speak, she manifested as a sheep.

Sluggy Freelance had one (just off-screen) appearance by God, though this was a near-death experience hallucination and part of unreliable narration. Also, He urinated on Kiki's head. One reader on the forums was offended.

Shortpacked! has God appear every once in a while, usually trying to get people to bring back Enterprise. Jesus has also shown up (though the person he appeared before had just had a nasty knock on the head), eating a chocolate Easter cross.

Robin: ...why are you eating a chocolate Easter cross? Jesus: Did you know they sell these at the grocery store? What the fuck dude?

God in Planescape Survival Guideis more freqently called "Eldest" or "Aoskar," and appears in the form of a large red-bearded man. He is not the only god, however, and the betrayal of his wife thousands of years ago split his soul amongst 3 sacred artifacts and left his body without memory. He has since been put back together, but is now held captive and being drained of his essence by the Nothing.

In Sinfest, God appears as hands popping out of clouds holding signs or wearing hand puppets. He has a snarky sense of humor, enjoys poking fun at the main characters, and loves to make the Devil his Butt-Monkey. He hasn't shown up as much in the last few years' worth of strips, although his influence shows up in more subtle ways.

God is mentioned off-handedly in Narbonic. Apparently, Mel kicked him in the nuts.

God plays a main role in Holy Bibble, showing up mostly in the backstory as a morally ambiguous, dark hooded figure.

Kill Six Billion Demons: Creation began with the birth of YISUN, an omnipotent, omniscient being with perfect mastery over all things. However, YISUN was completely alone, and so committed holy suicide to create the universe. Despite this being a well-known fact, many in-universe myths have him as an active character speaking and imparting lessons.

YISUN: Let there not be a genesis, for beginnings are false and I am a consummate liar.

In the Mr Deity series of on YouTube shorts, God is interpreted as Mr. Deity, a Hollywood Executive type who, although essentially well-meaning, is a bit vague, thoughtless and temperamental, with a slightly alarming tolerance for various evils and unpleasantness. He also bears a startling resemblance to George Lucas.

On That Guy with the Glasses, a God-like stand-in called Santa Christ makes occasional appearances, usually doing something incredibly awesome and helpful (like erasing a reviewer's memories of a horrible movie) and then doing something else very nice for the reviewer (such as curing their diabetes or giving them a present). Everyone is always very happy to see him. In the second year anniversary video, he is shot, but rises from the grave in three days. When the Chick asks why it took a full three days, he points out that she never rose from the grave and thus has no point of reference.

The Creator in the Whateley Universe is said to be the only entity more powerful than the Lovecraftian Outer Gods.

God in Messed Up Bible Stories on YouTube (see here), who is portrayed as a speaking, glowing ball of light.

SCP-343. Made ambiguous in that some theorized that he might just be a really powerful and self-controlled Reality Warper.

There are several other SCP that are also implied to be God as well, although 343 is the most well-known one.

A meme depicts the universe, layers-of-an-onion style starting with Earth and ending with "The observable universe". The last panel (presumably depicting the outside of the universe) is an old man yelling instructions.

DarkMatter2525: A common character in the cartoons, portrayed stereotypically as a bearded white man in the clouds. He's generally neglectful and cruel toward his creation.

Western Animation

God shows up in the Drawn Together episode "Gay Bash" to declare that, despite what Princess Clara says, he doesn't hate homosexuals, and he thinks fundamentalists are assholes (and homosexuals are adorable).

In the Futurama episode "Godfellas", Bender has an encounter with a galaxy-sized being that appears to be God (though, in a Shout-Out to Star Trek, Bender theorizes that it's the remains of a satellite that collided with God). It seems to care about living creatures, but espouses a "light touch" philosophy to keep them from dependency. God also has a cameo in The MovieBender's Big Score, wherein he makes a sound of surprise and coughs up a Timey-Wimey Ball in response to the speaking of the universal time code.

Robot God appeared in the Season 6 episode "Ghost in the Machines" while Yivo from The second movie "The Beast with a Billion Backs" has elements of the Judeo-Christian God (albeit slightly twisted ones).

God doesn't actually show up, but in an episode of Justice League Unlimited, Hawkgirl and Diana are fighting monsters/demons in Tartarus/Hell and all of a sudden the demons back off and Hawkgirl realizes why.

Hawkgirl: That's right, I'm an angel. You can mess with me if you want to, but I don't think you want to mess with the Boss. (points up)

God and Jesus both show up from time to time on Family Guy, with God being depicted as a bit of a wannabe ladies man with a thing for sniper rifles, who is embarrassed when someone reads from the book of Job. Unlike in The Simpsons, God is shown full-body with, naturally, Mac Farlane's voice instead of the traditional deep bass. God is also depicted as every other stereotypical male; drunk, hits on the women, and loves to party.

In American Dad!, also by MacFarlane, God is depicted as... Angelina Jolie. Though this was just a form taken to keep Steve's (limited) attention. Looking into the "rack of infinite wisdom" turned Steve into a prophet, who had a solution to all conflict in the Middle East. In a later episode God is depicted as... well, he looks a bit more like Sean Connery.note Probably the most believable portrayal of God in all of fiction.

As said, God has shown up in The Simpsons. His face is never shown on screen, except for a couple of occasions. He's also the only character with five fingers. As well as five thighs.

In their usual style, South Park depicts God as a bizarre-looking and somewhat surly mandrill/hippo creature in "Are You There, God? It's Me, Jesus". And he's a Buddhist who only lets Mormons into Heaven.

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